Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: "Jay Burleson" <jayburleson@earthlink.net> > > The F3 shutter is electronic. > If the batteries are removed or dead, there is a separate release button > coupled with the self timer lever that will release the shutter at the flash > sync speed (1/50th I think). > So you can still use it, but only at one shutter speed. the release button is actually a lever that's about where a self timer might be, and is concentric with the exposure lock button. the real self timer is electronic, and is concentric with the shutter speed dial. the f3 book claims a speed "approximately" 1/60 at any shutter dial setting other than "T". i had to look this up in the book. in the 80's i was a devotee of that last n*k*n more machine than microprocessor. since then i confess to having been won over entirely by the wetzlar wonder. - -rei - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html